To buy a qashqui?

I have one it’s 10 years old but I love it. It’s a top spec model as well so has lots of fancy gadgets (more than my parents much newer car has). Mine is a diesel and I’ve just had to spend a few hundred getting it fixed because the DFP was blocked. The mechanic explained this is because I don’t do a lot of motorway driving.

AhDDs was an11 plate so doubt hybrid

I had 2013 diesel qashqai and it being diesel caused problems so I would advise against it on that basis.

Depends on the type of car you had and age. As I said mine is semi hybrid so it has the extra battery and to be fair, I didn't know it was there until a warning light came on and I had a diagnostic test done. Its very well concealed so you wouldn't know it's there.

I have a Qashqui , now 7 years old and I bloody love it

I just had a Juke written off I wouldnt have another Nissan

I have a 2016 Petrol Qashqai.

As a car I like it, it's comfortable, spacious and not too big but it has already had one replacement engine under warranty as there were a batch made with faulty parts.

It has been fine since until yesterday when it died on the motorway and had to be recovered home. We don't yet know what the fault is but a bit of googling is not reassuring. They seem to be prone to vague faults that are difficult to pin down and thus hard to eliminate.

Like a previous poster I now no longer trust it.

I had a Qashqai which I absolutely LOVED but I had get rid of it unfortunately. I was gutted as I had wanted one for so long. I had a couple of issues. The first one - i was driving on the motorway when the car died. The thermostat housing had cracked, with no warning signs whatsoever. I remember looking it up online afterwards and apparently its a common fault on models around i think 2019-21 and for lots of people completely destroys the engine! I was lucky, my engine was ok and the thermostat housing was replaced with a stronger one (i think the original one is plastic, they now make a different, stronger version)

The one that made me get rid of it was an issue with it leaking coolant. I was driving along one day when suddenly the whole thing died, turned out the coolant was empty. Feeling like an idiot, i topped it up but a few weeks later it happened multiple times. It was costing me a fortune in coolant. I took it to 3 different garages but not one could find out what was causing the leak or how, only that it was leaking into the engine and would eventually cause head gasket failure. They would have to take half the car apart just to diagnose that, which still may not have solved the problem. Safe to say, i was done with it by that point and now have an EV.

I feel like i have been completely negative there, but i wanted to be honest about my experience! Im still gutted though as i loved that car, and saved really hard for it! But the two issues I experienced meant I didnt trust it anymore.

The number of people spelling Qashqai wrong is quite annoying.

Nissan ‘borrowed’ the word “Qashqai", it refers to a Turkic-speaking nomadic people in Iran, who are known for their migration through the Zagros mountains.

We did some long journeys, think ferry, hundreds of miles, so yes the diesel was efficient, depends on age of car of cours. Under 10k mileage probs not difference

I always buy Japanese cars as they’re so reliable. I had a Honda CRV for over 12 years and now have another Japanese SUV.

Recently on holiday I hired a Toyota Corolla hybrid electric/petrol and was impressed with how fuel efficient it was.

When buying a new car, ideally visit several garages and have a few test drives to see how a car feels.

You might find that you prefer a different car to the one that initially ticked all the boxes on paper.

I have a 68 plate 1.5 diesel, had it for 5 years now and it's great (so far) its on about 58k miles, I only do around 6k miles a year in it. averaging 50mpg. only annoying thing is for the size of it it seems to struggle to get 3 suitcases in the boot for going on holiday!

I hated mine!

Very cramped interior, especially in the rear seats. My teens were really cramped.
Awkward shaped boot made it difficult to fit stuff in.
Random warning lights kept coming on the dash - the garage said everything was fine and to ignore as was a known fault, but then I didn't know if there really was an issue.
Poor visibility
I found a lack of power, particularly going up hill or trying to overtake on the motorway.

Replaced it with a Seat Ateca a couple of years ago, which is so much better in every area.

We loved our Qashqai. It never had to go to the garage once in the 4 years we had it.

The only thing to watch is that the boot lid has quite a slope in it so won’t be great if you have big dogs. You can take your dog along to the showroom and try it out though.

No idea what the space is like for dogs - I know they are a nightmare for child seats if you need to fit multiple, particularly if you need three.

Are they any good when do so ilitte mileage? Most diesel sare more worthwhile when you do a decent amount of miles

Doesbt that deped on the age of it? MY DD used to have one but I don't think it had extra battery,

qashqai/hatchback/ used-review/n804/reliability https://www.whatcar.com/nissan/qashqai/hatchback/used-review/n804/reliability

There’s a bit at the end about reliability of Nissan in general (28th out of the 31 featured)! @TheBeaTgoeson1 - hope that’s helpful!

Isn’t Nissan considered one of the least reliable car manufacturers? WhatCar always seems to absolutely lambast them!

Just got my second Qashqai, first was diesel, great for motorway driving, did 10k miles a year. Latest is hybrid, love it.

I have a cockerpoo, he did sits in his seat, strapped in on back seat (looking like a king)

Depends on what kind of age you’re looking at. Older ones aren’t bad, newer ones are utter dog shit.